Ex-Navy pilot gets $5M Moussaoui reward

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Ex-Navy pilot gets $5M Moussaoui reward
By Doug Glass - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Jan 25, 2008 11:05:24 EST

MINNEAPOLIS — An instructor at the flight school Zacarias Moussaoui attended before the Sept. 11 attacks is $5 million richer for his efforts to alert authorities — but colleagues say he wasn’t the only one sounding an alarm.

Clarence Prevost, 69, got the payout Thursday as part of the State Department’s “Rewards for Justice” program, which mainly seeks information about perpetrators or planners of terrorist acts against U.S. interests and citizens abroad.

The ceremony was closed and the State Department wouldn’t identify the recipient, in keeping with the policy of the program. But two Bush administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to talk publicly about the matter, said the reward went to Prevost.

Prevost, a former Navy pilot who goes by the nickname “Clancy,” became a key witness at Moussaoui’s trial and eventual conviction as a Sept. 11 conspirator, testifying that he urged his bosses at the Pan Am International Flight Academy outside Minneapolis to call the FBI in August 2001 because he was suspicious of Moussaoui, an inexperienced pilot seeking commercial jetliner training.

Prevost said during the trial that he urged flight school officials to call the FBI, and one day an agent showed up to ask him questions about Moussaoui.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/01/ap_tipsterpilot_080125/



uhc comment: Not bad. Prevost told the FBI about Zacarias Moussaoui in August 2001. It only took six years and change to get the reward.

[FreakinDJ]

1. Too bad they never recognised the FBI agent in the case

who desperately tried to obtian a FISA warrent and was denied twice.